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The Well-Timed Strategy
Most companies ignore one of their best opportunities for honing competitive advantage: the opportunity to proactively manage business cycles and macroeconomic turbulence. Despite the profound impact that the business cycle has on the fortunes and fate of so many businesses large and small--and the employees and investors that depend on them--not fa single book offers a comprehensive guide to strategically and tactically managing the business cycle. The Well-Timed Strategy shows how to manage not just the business cycle and industry cycles but also today's unprecedented level of macroeconomic turbulence. Peter Navarro shows how to align every facet of business strategy, tactics, and operatio...
The Last Exile
PI Dave Wakeland returns to the streets of Vancouver for his most dangerous case yet. Maggie Zito is being held for murder. The volatile single mother is accused of killing the retired leader of the notorious Exiles motorcycle gang and his wife aboard their million-dollar houseboat. With a mystery witness putting Maggie at the scene, and the Exiles baying for her blood, it’s unlikely she’ll make it to the trial alive. Desperate, Maggie’s lawyer, Shuzhen Chen, calls in a favour to Dave Wakeland: Find evidence of Maggie’s innocence and get her client out of custody. Wakeland reluctantly returns to a changing city, full of unfamiliar dangers. To prove Maggie’s innocence, he and Shuzhe...
Learning by Doing
Examines how the PLA learns by doing, specifically through its exercises and noncombat operations at home and overseas, and through key logistical and theoretical developments
Liquidated
Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ideologies of Wall Street investment bankers, Ho describes how a financially dominant but highly unstable market system is understood, justified, and produced through the restructuring of corporations and the larger economy. Ho, who worked at an investment bank...
The Fastback Chronicles
Meet Tommy Sherwin. Hes just been out of high school a few months and has no clear direction where his life is going as he starts junior college and works at a restaurant. Soon after his friend Chris gets his first car, they set out on lots of late-night antics. Here he tells the story of their various misadventures, the trouble they flirt with, the toils of fast-food work and the young ladies who break his heart. Ah, the first years of adulthood.
Widow of Que-Moy
Widow of Que-Moy weaves the romance and tragedy of two young lovers on Que-Moy, an island adjacent to Mainland China, during the tumultuous confrontations between Chiang Kai-Sheks nationalist regime and Chairman Maos revolutionaries. Draped with the exotic Chinese culture, this romantic and passionate tale will entice you from the very beginning, while offering a concise account of this often neglected chapter in world history. The fluid writing style of the author will keep you turning the pages of this historical drama, as plots of political treachery, sabotage on the open seas, a merciless attack on a defenseless island, and a daring commando raid provides the dramatic finale.
Cambridge Preparation for the TOEFL® Test Book with CD-ROM
Helps learners acquire the skills they need to succeed on the Test of English as a Foreign Language.
The Lean Entrepreneur
Providing a step-by-step approach to best practices, and giving readers a business model analysis guide, the book is rich in cases studies, illustrative graphics, worksheets, and exercises for a truly immersive guide to starting or improving a company. Invaluable reading for all readers in all businesses, the book teaches entrepreneurs how to approach risk head-on and test market ideas immediately, foster stronger customer relations, test different business model risks, and create a customer funnel based on buyers' process in order to eliminate unnecessary time and effort.A lean entrepreneur has already bought into lean startup, customer development, design thinking, and other iterative, customer-centric methods of product development. The lean entrepreneur wants to know how to apply these to their business. In other words: how to get started tomorrow. This book shows the way.
Invisible Dead
"I don't know why this city sees fit to kill its women." Chelsea Loam vanished eleven years ago. When Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland is hired to find what happened to the missing woman, he soon uncovers a trail leading towards career criminals and powerful men. Taking the case quickly starts to look like a good way to get killed. Whatever ghosts drive Wakeland, they drive him inexorably, addictively toward danger and the allure of an unsolvable mystery. Invisible Dead marks the debut of one of the most acclaimed and authentic contemporary detective series.
Always a Winner
"In much the same way that Good to Great uncovered hitherto hidden secrets of highly successful companies, Navarro’s Always a Winner uses extensive research to reveal the overriding importance of learning how to forecast and strategically manage the business cycle for competitive advantage. In doing so, this book provocatively explores a critical aspect of successful management virtually untapped by the existing strategy literature." —Dan DiMicco, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nucor Steel " Always a Winner is an important and timely guide to thriving in challenging economic times. Prof. Navarro deftly bridges the academic and business communities, showing corporate leaders how to...
